Quality management in local government, the same as in the private sector but different
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by Emerald in Leadership & Organization Development Journal
- Vol. 18 (1), 29-36
- https://doi.org/10.1108/01437739710156268
Abstract
Looks at the growing importance of quality management in local government. Identifies the current thinking behind total quality and the need to apply established theory in the public domain, and explores the approaches and methodologies which are currently available to do this. Develops a framework for total quality from the work of a number of quality gurus. This framework can be used to examine the key requirements of total quality implementation, and hence expanded to take account of the special purpose of, and constraining conditions which apply to, local authorities.Keywords
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